Corporate historian D.K. Taknet, 42, has spent four years journeying around the salivary world of Indian tea, from speedy dhaba parboils to thoughtful Wedgwood brews, and emerged feeling great pride and a wee bit of burra-sahib nostalgia.

India's External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha is bringing his own brand of diplomacy in the conduct of the country's foreign policy. He spoke at
length to Executive Editor Raj Chengappa on the direction he wants
India's foreign policy to take.

The ruling National Conference will face the elections with a new man at the helm: Omar Abdullah, minister of state for external affairs. Excerpts from an interview with INDIA TODAY Editor Prabhu Chawla on Aaj Tak's Seedhi Baat:

Jagmohan Dalmiya's deals seem to follow him. The BCCI chief found himself in the middle of the player contracts row, saying his rival A.C.
Muthiah had signed the controversial contract as BCCI president.

At 20, Anoushka Shankar may be too young to write her memoirs, but she is rich in memory to write on the most beloved man in her life-her father Pandit Ravi Shankar, the sitar maestro. Bapi: The Love of My Life is a daughter's intimate portrait of her father.

On February 27 this year the Cabinet gave "in principle" approval to the sale of HPCL and BPCL, but asked Disinvestment Minister Arun Shourie, Petroleum Minister Ram Naik and the finance minister to decide the exact method of sale.

It was a year ago at the Cannes film festival that Universal Studios spotted Mira Nair and Monsoon Wedding. Taken by the movie and the director, the US studio did something unheard of - it acquired Nair's movie and slotted it as a mainstream product in the US.

Histrionics has been Shiv Sena Pramukh Bal Thackeray's stock in trade. After summarily asking Rajapur MP Suresh Prabhu to quit as Union power minister, Thackeray declared that he was fed up with politics and would like to retire.